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Officially-licensed mobile adventure Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery launched last week to criticism of its hugely restrictive in-game energy limits. The free-to-play app blocks you from completing in-progress missions unless you either pay up, or put down the game and then remember to come back within a certain time limit. One …

Still playing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp? Nintendo’s anthropomorphic sim for smartphones now has a second in-game event running to keep you busy. Raddle. From now until next Monday’s reset (6am) you’ll gain friendship XP at a faster rate when completing villager requests. Unlocked all 44 animals? Well now there are …

A Choose Your Own Adventure Netflix show for adults? Excuse me? It’s happening, according to Bloomberg. It has no name but it has an aim: to put you in control of the storylines you see. Netflix does this already but in kids titles you probably overlooked. They are Puss in …

Hackney Wick is the best station for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and so I emerged from the carriage last Sunday amongst what seemed like a disproportionate number of people wearing running shoes and tracksuits and fiddling with Fitbits. Once I had left the station, though, and made the first …

UPDATE 9/12/17 8.30am: Slightly later than we were expecting, Gen 3 spawns have now been switched on – meaning 50 new creatures are now available to collect in Pokmon Go. The game’s weather feature is also live, contrary to one earlier report which had it pegged for later in the …

How do you follow a game like Knights of the Old Republic, the most famous original Star Wars tale a video game has ever told? Forget about Obsidian’s sequel for a moment and imagine it was BioWare staring at a piece of paper wondering how to follow a twist like …

Tom Phillips News Editor @tomphillipsEG There’s another new Harry Potter smartphone game in development – this time, a narrative-based RPG where you get to attend Hogwarts. The appropriately-named Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery sees you attend the magical school, take classes, learn how to duel and meet familiar professors from JK …

I suspect that if you grew up with Indiana Jones and the Goonies, with Tintin and Fighting Fantasy paperbacks, the merest combination of words like “Dungeon Run” is likely to trigger a Pavlovian response. Luckily, Blizzard’s take on Dungeon Run, employed as the wriggly, twitching spine of Hearthstone’s recent Kobolds …